Since the early days of my sea fishing I have a slight obsession with beachcasting rods. I met Leslie Moncrieff, who was a champion caster, when I was 18, I already knew Ian Gillespie and Nigel Forrest who were into lighweight rods and tournament casting respectively. Guess I was a youth of that era!
I have never had enough money to really indulge in the latest beach rods, but fortunately there are plenty that do. So I usually pick up rods at about two years old as the wealthier fashion followers move onto the next wonder nano-boron-kevlar- graphene etc,etc marketing ploy.
I sold most of my beach rods about 4 years ago before moving to France. I still have four and I have been trying to find a place to practise a few distance chucks. There are no bits of river that are wide enough near me! Even the fields are too small!
Despite being so remote from the sea I still dream of that perfect cast over a rolling surf
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